The current popular term in the cabinet industry is 'sliding shelf' for very shallow shelves set far apart so that tall objects may be stored on them, such as Systainers.
Traditionally cabinet sections with doors do not hide drawers. The drawers in a lower cabinet were always on top of a shelf section with doors.
These days, for about the last couple of years, we are asked to make pantries and lower cabinets with full height doors hiding sliding shelves which do not have separate decorative drawer fronts.
The design solution can go in at least two directions. Plan 1 uses a combination of slides and hinges intended to work together without interference. My firm has several cabinet hardware vendors offering those products. Perhaps some are now available to DIY folks. Plan 2 is to carefully arrange the hinge locations so as to leave a clear space for the full extension side mount drawer slides. Except for tradition there is no actual engineering reason why in Euro-style frameless design hinges must be 80mm from the top and bottom. However, with sliding shelves usually the bottom set will clear below a hinge set at 80mm. If the top sliding shelf is intended to function as a knife drawer, then either the top hinge is set above that slide, or just below it.
My firm specializes in high-end cabinets. I find the trend even in the most expensive kitchens is to not hide the sliding shelves behind doors. We deal with that trend. It does save the client some money because custom cabinet doors are expensive, so making them is profitable. My concern is that at some point those open sliding shelves will be considered messy. Retrofitting an existing cabinet with sliding shelves to include doors is not very easy, unless when the 32mm holes were drilled for the drawer slides extras were drilled for potential hinges. A distressing trend these days is a requirement that only the minimum necessary shelf holes be drilled.
